nccotus

An atonement is being made.

i still live there in my heart, mind, and soul.

I lived there longer than any other place in my life. 16 years. I lived there with Ian. It was like I was a single mother. Alex worked out of town. Handed me a wad of cash and then got on a plane. 20 dollars sometimes. Sometimes 200. I had a credit card. He blamed me for using it.

Florida was mostly about AFA, Admiral Farragut Academy. I am worried about their status in the storm. Our home was way high on a hill, Farragut was right at sea level.

Farragut saved our lives. Ian was a troubled student there at first but he so loved that place. He had the right background to stay. I had Kent School and Harvard; Alex had WWII heroes for parents/an uncle and UNB for college. It wasn’t going well for us; but we both fell in love with Farragut also.

Then, the eye injury; Ian’s best friend threw a dart at him and hit him in the eye. There was a lot of fighting at Farragut, a military school, a naval academy. Ian was fragile after that. Couldn’t play sports any more. It was so sad for us. I took him out of there and got him into CCC, the prime private Catholic School.

So, here it is a decade and a half later and I am pulling myself together from the divorce. Missing Florida. Praying for everybody there as they struggle to recover from this horrible hurricane.